Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.
From Italo Calvino
Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.
My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.
The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.
Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.
The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.
Folktales are real.
I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.
I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.
I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois.
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